The little talked about side-effects of COVID-19
4 years, 3 months ago

The little talked about side-effects of COVID-19

Al Jazeera  

In March, we predicted that the 70 million people fleeing violence and persecution across the world would be hit hardest by the coronavirus pandemic. This week my organisation, the Norwegian Refugee Council, published a report, Downward Spiral, showing that the world’s most vulnerable communities are facing a quadruple crisis because of the COVID-19 pandemic: a health crisis, a hunger crisis, a homelessness crisis and an education crisis. Many people we spoke to in conflict countries say they are more afraid of the hunger crisis brought on by COVID-19 than they are of being killed by the disease itself. At least a third of the world’s schoolchildren – 463 million children globally – were unable to access remote learning when COVID-19 shuttered their schools, according to UNICEF. The Riyadh gathering is a unique opportunity for the world’s powers to show international solidarity towards protecting the world’s most vulnerable people against the impacts of COVID-19.

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At UN, leaders confront COVID’s impact on global education
2 years, 3 months ago

At UN, leaders confront COVID’s impact on global education

Associated Press  

With COVID-related school disruptions setting back children around the world, activists implored world leaders Monday to prioritize school systems and restore educational budgets slashed when the pandemic hit. “We will not stop until every person in every village and every highland has access to an education.” The percentage of 10-year-old children in poor and middle-income countries who cannot read a …

Keep schools open, children can't wait: UNICEF
2 years, 10 months ago

Keep schools open, children can't wait: UNICEF

India Today  

Keep schools open amid the Covid-19 pandemic, said an official statement released by UNICEF. Also, World Bank's Global Education Director Jaime Saavedra said that there is no justification now for keeping schools closed in view of the pandemic and even if there are new waves, closing schools should be the last resort, according to the UNICEF Recommendations to reopen schools …

Do children risk a ’generational catastrophe’ due to covid?
3 years, 6 months ago

Do children risk a ’generational catastrophe’ due to covid?

Live Mint  

The pandemic has severely affected children's rights worldwide, with young people risking a "generational catastrophe" if governments do not act, a rights group said in an annual survey. Marc Dulleart, founder and chairman of KidsRights, says that the effects of the pandemic on children had "unfortunately exceeded our predictions at the outset last year". "Apart from patients of the coronavirus, …

Covid-19 continues to disrupt essential health services: WHO
3 years, 8 months ago

Covid-19 continues to disrupt essential health services: WHO

India TV News  

Over one year into the Covid-19 pandemic, about 90 percent of the world's 105 countries surveyed still report disruptions to their essential health services, the World Health Organization said. A recent WHO survey has found that about 66 percent of countries continue to report health workforce-related reasons as the most common cause of service disruptions, and in nearly one-third of …

Lives of youth ‘in jeopardy’ in Middle East, North Africa: UNICEF
3 years, 9 months ago

Lives of youth ‘in jeopardy’ in Middle East, North Africa: UNICEF

Al Jazeera  

The MENA region accounts for half of UNICEF’s worldwide humanitarian response appeals, a marked rise since 2011. “This is a combined result of conflict and the fall of oil prices, which has narrowed opportunities for children and young people in the region.” The Middle East and North Africa region counts 124 million people aged 10-24 – just over a quarter …

Multilateral cooperation is vital to a global recovery from covid
3 years, 10 months ago

Multilateral cooperation is vital to a global recovery from covid

Live Mint  

In September 2000, 189 countries signed the ‘Millennium Declaration’, shaping the principles of international cooperation for a new era of progress toward common goals. The pandemic calls for a strong coordinated international response that rapidly expands access to tests, treatments and vaccines, recognizing extensive immunization as a global public good that must be available and affordable for all. In this …

A Lost Generation: UNICEF Report Reveals COVID-19 Toll on Children's Health and Education
4 years, 1 month ago

A Lost Generation: UNICEF Report Reveals COVID-19 Toll on Children's Health and Education

News 18  

It has been a year since the COVID-19 pandemic began, and while we count the massive death toll and economic losses, what is going unnoticed by most governments across the world is the disruption that this pandemic has caused in the lives of children and young adults. It was released ahead of World Children’s Day and is titled ‘Averting a …

1 in 9 children infected by COVID-19: UNICEF
4 years, 1 month ago

1 in 9 children infected by COVID-19: UNICEF

The Hindu  

Children and adolescents account for 1 in 9 reported COVID-19 infections, according to an analysis by the UNICEF in a report released on Friday. As of November 3, children and adolescents accounted for 11 per cent of the 25.7 million infections reported across 87 countries, the report stated. The future of an entire generation is at risk.” As schools remain …

Online G-20 summit lacks glam, and maybe results, amid virus
4 years, 1 month ago

Online G-20 summit lacks glam, and maybe results, amid virus

Associated Press  

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — This weekend’s summit of leaders from the Group of 20 stands out more for what it is not than for what it is. A virtual summit does spare Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman the possibility that some leaders may have stood him up in Riyadh, two years after Western intelligence agencies said he bears ultimate …

COVID-19 Has Robbed The World's Poorest Children Of Nearly 4 Months Of Schooling
4 years, 1 month ago

COVID-19 Has Robbed The World's Poorest Children Of Nearly 4 Months Of Schooling

NPR  

COVID-19 Has Robbed The World's Poorest Children Of Nearly 4 Months Of Schooling Enlarge this image toggle caption Yawar Nazir/Getty Images Yawar Nazir/Getty Images In April, 9 in 10 of the world's children were out of school in an effort to stop the spread of the coronavirus. Several months later, a new report from UNESCO, UNICEF and the World Bank …

Education Ministers of G20 countries conduct virtual meet to resolve issues amid Covid-19 pandemic
4 years, 3 months ago

Education Ministers of G20 countries conduct virtual meet to resolve issues amid Covid-19 pandemic

India Today  

Education Ministers of G 20 nations have resolved to work together and share best practices in the area of education so that member countries can ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all, even in times of crisis. A virtual meeting of G20 Education Ministers was held on September 05, 2020, to discuss and share …

A third of world's children missed remote learning during coronavirus pandemic: UNICEF
4 years, 3 months ago

A third of world's children missed remote learning during coronavirus pandemic: UNICEF

India Today  

The UN children's agency says at least a third of children couldn't access remote learning when the Covid-19 pandemic closed schools, creating "a global education emergency." "For at least 463 million children whose schools closed due to Covid-19, there was no such a thing as remote learning," UNICEF Executive Director Henrietta Fore said. "The sheer number of children whose education …

G20 urged to play bigger role in COVID-19 response
4 years, 5 months ago

G20 urged to play bigger role in COVID-19 response

China Daily  

A medical worker collects a sample from a child for the COVID-19 antigen test in New Delhi, India, on June 19, 2020. While there remains great uncertainty on the global economic outlook, the unprecedented actions taken by the G20 countries and others "have helped to avert a much worse outcome," Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund Kristalina Georgieva said …

COVID-19 impact may kill 8 lakh kids in South Asia: UNICEF
4 years, 6 months ago

COVID-19 impact may kill 8 lakh kids in South Asia: UNICEF

Deccan Chronicle  

Hyderabad: The Covid-19 pandemic has the potential to disrupt services critical to children’s welfare and well-being in South Asia, including India, the United Nations Children’s Emergency Fund has said in its latest report ‘Upended Lives,’ released on Tuesday. The pandemic is “unravelling decades of health, education and other advances for children across South Asia and governments must take urgent action …

WHO concerned over COVID-19 upswing in many countries
4 years, 6 months ago

WHO concerned over COVID-19 upswing in many countries

India TV News  

World Health Organization said that it's concerned that many countries, particularly the global south, are still on the upswing of the COVID-19 pandemic, and again called for global solidarity to overcome difficulties for "over 100 years." "We are concerned that we are still very much on the upswing of this pandemic in many countries, particularly of the global south," Dr …

UN issues desperate plea for financial aid in war-ravaged Yemen
4 years, 6 months ago

UN issues desperate plea for financial aid in war-ravaged Yemen

Al Jazeera  

Global body says more than 30 of its 41 programmes in the country could close in weeks without funding. The United Nations has warned that three-quarters of the aid programmes backed by its agencies in war-ravaged Yemen will have to shutter in weeks without more funding, even as both COVID-19 and cholera continue to spread in the country facing the …

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